Seating Arrangement Cleanliness Research Finding and Discussion
16 and not too slow. Secondly, The Pause of the teacher is not too long.
Thirdly, The Pronunciation of the teacher is simple and familiar in students’ ears. Fourthly, The Vocabulary Selection of the teacher is simple
to the students in the eighth grade, Fifthly, The Degree of Subordination of the teacher is high. Sixthly, The Frequency of Use Statement or
Declarative than Question of the teacher. The teacher used more questions than statements. Lastly, Self - repetition of the teacher. The teacher is less
in repeat the explanation. The second component is Teacher Talking Time TTT. The writer
found in the field that the teacher always gave opportunity to the students to ask some questions or difficult words that they do not know the
meaning. The third component is Physical Presence which has four styles. Firstly, during Language Presentation, the teacher always stood in front of
the students. Secondly, during Reading Activity, the teacher was dominant. He always stood in front of the class or in front of students
when they are reading. Thirdly, during Activation Control. In this stage, the teacher is allowed the students to active, did the discussion, and asked
to the teacher if there were some difficult words. Lastly, during Checking Work in Progress. In this stage, teacher were always move from one group
to other in order to check students’ progress and controled whether they do the instruction well or not.
The fourth component is Seating Arrangement. The Seating arrangement used by the teacher when teaching English is Orderly Row. It
makes easier for the students to watched and pay attention to the teacher’s explanation, and so do the teacher, It makes him easier to explain and give
instruction in the whole class. The last component is Element Necessary in Language Classroom.
There are three branches of Element Necessary in Language Classroom. They are Engage, Study, and Activate. From the writer’s observation, the
17 teacher was just apply Study. The teacher used styles of study activities
such as giving explanation, reading, and translating. From the writer’s observation and interview in the field, there are
two factors that influence classroom management applied by the eighth grade teacher in teaching English in SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta.
They are Time Allocation and Seating Arrangement. The set of Time Allocation rightly will gave good impact to the
students and teacher. The teacher can do all activities in Lesson Plan so that learning objective can be reached. Seating Arrangement is very
important too because when the smart and good students sit near or beside naughty and lazy students, they will be interested in do the same thing.
They will be influenced by their behaviour. So, the naughty students asked to sit beside diligent student or move forward, so that they can be more
focus and pay attention to the teacher’s explanation. From the writer’s observation and interview, the writer found that
there are two big problems faced by the eighth grade teacher in applying his classroom management in the class. They are Class Cleanliness and
Discipline. Cleanliness is part of the faith The students were too lazy to clean up their class. The second problem is The Discipline. The students
always come late to the class. The discipline will give big impact to the some forming components of classroom management. They are, Teacher
Talk branch Self Repetition. The noise of the class which comes from students who came late to the class will give influence to the teacher’s
repetition. The students who pay attention to the teacher’s explanation will feel distubing because they cannot listen clearly for what the teacher said.
It gives impact to the Study, one of the component element Necessary in Language Classroom. The noise of the students will give bad impact to the
teacher’s explanation.